I don't own these characters, just a fan wanting to tell a story. Hope you enjoy!


Danny walked up the steps of a small house and, he knocked lightly on the door.

A man opened the door, he looked concerned when he saw the badge.

"Hi, I'm Detective Reagan and I was wondering if Elizabeth Madden was in, I want to ask her a few questions about the rape that happened four years ago." Danny stated.

"She in the living room," the man said, "but be careful she had therapy today, she's always a little more fragile on those days." He cautioned.

Danny nodded in understanding. He walked into the neatly decorated living room. The walls were green and, the furniture white with pink accents. She sat in a white wingback chair. She had dark hair and dark eyes, her pale skin contracted with her red lips. Across her neck was a long jagged scar from the knife that had barely missed her jugular. Danny was surprised by the striking resemblance to Maria.

"Lizzie, you have a visitor." The man said.

Elizabeth Madden, looked up.

"You're a detective," She said before Danny even sat down.

"Yeah." Danny responded.

"I used to be a detective," ahe said in a soft voice, "then it happened, and now I'm not fit for duty." She added.

"I'm here to ask you a few questioned about what happened-"

"On May 10th, 2015 I was taken captive by a man; he hit me, abused me, and tied me up by my arms for days on end. On June 12th he scrubbed me from head to toe with disinfectant to make sure none his DNA was left behind, he stuffed me in the trunk, naked, took me to a dumpster. He slit my throat barely missing my jugular. I held my throat together and managed to get rescued." Elizabeth rasped, "That's all you need, isn't it?"

"No," Danny responded. he felt terrible asking her to search her memory for any other information."Do you remember him saying anything about a family or that he needed to go anywhere?"

"Why are you investigating this?" She demanded. "You are a detective with the NYPD, why are investigating a case from Lakewood Colorado?"

"Because there's a new lead, and we think he might be in New York now."

She tensed. "He's come back to finished the job." She panicked, but then she calmed, "What do you need to know?" She said trying to be strong.

"Anything he said that stood out to you, anything that could help us find him."

Elizabeth thought hard and after a few moment she opened her mouth. "When he first took me he kept saying, 'Maria, I did what you said,' and 'I never stopped loving you, Maria," he always called me 'Maria," and any time I would try and say I wasn't Maria he would tell me lying didn't work on him."

Danny closed his eyes,

"I always wondered if Maria was the answer to the puzzle," Elizabeth murmured.

"Well, we found her." Danny said, rising. "Thank you for your help. If you think of anything of anything else,please let me know," handing her his business card.

"May I ask," Elizabeth said rising with him, "who is Maria?"

"She's his ex-girlfriend," Danny said.

Elizabeth nodded, "I thought as much, I'm glad she got out while she could."


Maria held a mug in her hands slowly drinking tea. Sean had headed up to bed a few hours before, but Danny wasn't home yet and she was waiting up for him. She wrapped the blanket tighter around her. She glanced at the clock to see it was half past midnight when the door opened and Danny entered.

"Hey," She greeted getting up from the couch.

"I didn't know you would still be up." Danny said softly.

"I couldn't sleep, any developments on the case?" Maria questioned setting her cup down still wrapped in the blanket.

"It's an ongoing investigation and you are off the case." Danny responded.

Maria glared at him. "I made tacos for supper," She offered, "if you are hungry."

Danny didn't realize it until she mentioned food, but he was starving.

"Actually that sounds really good." Danny agreed.

Maria got the food from the fridge while Danny took off his coat.

"So any developments on the case?" Maria inquired again.

Danny sighed as he ate, but he wanted Baez's help.

"There was one survivor in Colorado and, she is currently living in New York. I interviewed her, but didn't get much. He is very good at not getting caught."Danny started," However we are on the right track on why they all look like you-she said he always called her Maria."

Maria winced at that, she hated that her name had been used that way.

"Is Sean in bed?" Danny questioned.

"Yeah," Maria responded, "he went to bed a couple hours ago."

"Good," Danny said finishing up the food. "This was really good Baez, I didn't know you could cook" Danny said referring to the food.

"Thanks." Maria said with a blush. That complimented her complexion perfectly.

"I need to head to bed, I have an early day tomorrow." Danny remarked.

They parted ways to their separate rooms. Danny didn't go to bed thought. He took out the case files trying to find this guy somewhere, but he was good at hiding. They had checked every last known location, but had turned up nothing. Had he missed something? He must have. He worked late into the night, when a noise alerted him. He thought he heard sobbing coming down the hall. He carefully opened the door and made his way down the hall and sure enough he could hear Baez crying on the other side of the door. He pushed it open softly and saw her curled up in a ball on the bed sobbing into the pillow. It broke his heart to see her this way, she was shaking with grief. He walked carefully to the bed trying, not to startle her .

"Hey," He said softly. He wasn't sure she had heard him but then she turned trying to calm herself.

"What's wrong?" He asked taking her hand.

"It's my fault, it all my fault. If I had pressed charges he would be in prison." Maria sobbed.

"Don't think like that." Danny ordered calmly.

"How can't I, it's the truth." Maria whimpered.

Danny pulled Maria up and embraced her tightly.

"You can't focus on the past, only the future." He whispered. "Ff you focus on the past it will hold you back, you have to keep looking ahead."

Maria cherished being held close, she felt safe, like nothing could hurt her. Every memory of how Angelo had treated her came flooding back and she sobbed into Danny's chest. After years of keeping her past from everyone, including the one secret she never told anyone, she wanted to tell everything because he was the only person who would understand.


I hope you liked it, I may have just sacrificed my A in speech though. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT! I love you guys soo much I also want to thank everyone for the positiveness in the reviews it means A ton to me! I want to thank dancinkowgirl for editing and making my midnight idea's more readable. Love you guys! ~Eliza